How To Install xz on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz on Fedora 34.
What is xz
XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free (as in freedom) operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing compression algorithms. LZMA is a general purpose compression algorithm designed by Igor Pavlov as part of 7-Zip. It provides high compression ratio while keeping the decompression speed fast.
We can use yum or dnf to install xz on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xz.
Install xz on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xz
Install xz on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xz
How To Uninstall xz on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xz
xz Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/profile.d/colorxzgrep.csh
/etc/profile.d/colorxzgrep.sh
/usr/bin/unxz
/usr/bin/xz
/usr/bin/xzcat
/usr/bin/xzcmp
/usr/bin/xzdec
/usr/bin/xzdiff
/usr/bin/xzegrep
/usr/bin/xzfgrep
/usr/bin/xzgrep
/usr/bin/xzless
/usr/bin/xzmore
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/668a4d77bee2064f2b8104422a53bedc3a4012
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/12d14fd51219fb09d4f68f61fd70dca87ae6b4
/usr/share/doc/xz
/usr/share/doc/xz/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xz/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xz/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/xz/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xz/README
/usr/share/doc/xz/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/xz/TODO
/usr/share/doc/xz/faq.txt
/usr/share/doc/xz/history.txt
/usr/share/doc/xz/lzma-file-format.txt
/usr/share/doc/xz/xz-file-format.txt
/usr/share/licenses/xz
/usr/share/licenses/xz/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/xz/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/xz/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/xz/COPYING.LGPLv2.1
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/xz.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/unxz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzdec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzegrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzfgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzless.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/xzmore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unxz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzdec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzegrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzfgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzless.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xzmore.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.